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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Teaching
Personal
Present
Vision
Hope
Inspire
Activity

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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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